As the saying goes–Old age and treachery….;) Especially if you make it a point to stay fit, active and alert.
Not fun getting old (almost 73) but still having fun. Went duck/goose hunting the past few days, retrieved the shot waterfowl yesterday in the kayak, and will go bowhunting in a few more. Have already set up the stand yesterday. Field dressed, cut up and froze two deer already. Caring for my disabled husband after his heart surgery–and he is now well enough to duck hunt again. Helped our (disabled vet) hunting buddy today by getting in all the decoys myself via waders and hook… Both he and my husband are younger than I.
And I can still garden, shoot a handgun well, do basic carpentry, keep house and yard, cook…and have a small art business where I do custom hunting dog portraits for people across the country. It burns me that they upped my truck insurance just because I hit 70. I am NOT a statistic, nor am I a frail old blue-hair.
It’s not over yet!!!

These are the most deadly bullet clips of all time. We must do something to stop this madness. These rounds are capable of dispensing at 600 magazine clips per second, and they can travel up to 12 miles.

Attachments:

“Membership of Mensa is open to persons who have attained a score within the upper two percent of the general population on an approved intelligence test … .”

From the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution of the United States:

“Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice … .”

Attached photo from the streets of a Georgia city on 19 September 2016. No, it is not photo-shopped, and it is not from an unknown source. We were stopped at a light today and my wife was driving. I was adding a couple of things to my “To Do” list for the day when she burst out laughing and told me to look at what was directly in front of us. With cell phone in hand, I quickly switched from the “To Do” list to the camera. Still laughing out loud…. (The photo does enlarge.)

GS
"Ye hear of wars in far countries, and you say that there will soon be great wars in far countries, but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land."

Oh, they accept IQ scores from any of the standard, recognized IQ tests (Wechsler, Stanford-Binet, etc.), as well as a few other “equivalents” such as a high SAT or GRE score that would generally indicate a high IQ. Yes, they also have their own test for those that haven’t been able to obtain an IQ score from school testing, or don’t have a decent SAT or GRE score, for example, but the bottom line is that the concept of having a top 2% IQ score, regardless of the testing used to obtain the score, is NOT indicative of anything other than that person’s brain is capable of doing a multitude of specific, measurable functions better than 98% of everybody else. It says NOTHING about the common sense or social appropriateness of the individuals holding membership in the “society.” DC is full of them ….
[Note: I had to do enough IQ testing in grad school to be able to become certified in the tests. One learns a lot in that process …. Talk about having one’s eyes opened! I was just a young (late 20s) grad student at the time, without a lot of “life experience” yet. What an education – and preparation for the rest of my life in the real world! LOL!]

GS
"Ye hear of wars in far countries, and you say that there will soon be great wars in far countries, but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land."

True…those academic tests “test” for specific abilities, not the common sense and inventiveness that helps us cope with the real world…or survival. Most of the ‘high IQ’ people would die within 24 hours of a true disaster.